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Why I Love What I Do By, Dr. Van K. Tharp

Editor’s note: Excerpted from an article by Dr. Tharp in 2017 “Why I Love What I Do”. Effective this year (2017) I am required to take social security income and a minimum retirement distribution, but I do so reluctantly. Why? Because I absolutely love what I do. It’s my passion. Furthermore, I have a great staff who likes to do the things that I no longer want to do, so I basically spend my days working on raising my consciousness, being creative, and doing as much as I can to help […]

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VIDEO: The Impact of Systems Thinking on Your Retirement Account By, Bill Scheidt

How much of a difference does it make to apply systems thinking to your retirement account? And which makes a bigger difference to long-term investing results – Systems Thinking or Portfolio Composition? In the video below, we define and compare the two, looking at backtesting and percent returns.

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(Video) True Stories: Achieving Trader Consistency By, Gabriel Grammatidis

Last month, we were introduced to 12 Key Success Factors (KSFs), determined by Gabriel, after 15 years of coaching traders at every level. Today, we hear from five such traders for whom these factors have been crucial in reaching trading consistency. In these video interviews, we’ll hear which KSFs were most important to each individual trader and why. Trader Panel Talk: Petra, Claudio, Samuel and David   Trading Buddies: Darren and David

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Why Market Pullbacks Feel Worse Than Rallies Feel Good By, D. R. Barton, Jr.

A long-time friend and I were discussing the bottom line of the famous Daniel Kahneman Noble Prize-winning conclusion (that he made along with his friend Amos Tversky). I’m paraphrasing here, but we (humans) hate losing more than we like winning. That’s a bit broad, but the essence of Prospect Theory is that investors feel a greater emotional impact from a loss than we do of a gain of the same size. This will be a short but useful tip today… My friend and I had very different reactions to the

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Video: Applying Discretion When Reading Trading Charts By, Gabriel Grammatidis

Patterns and charts tell a story. And the better the story it tells, the better the trade quality. In this video, Gabriel nicely shows how he reads the charts and how a rule-based discretionary trader can apply discretion when reading trading charts. By evaluating positives and negatives of a trade, a discretionary decision can be taken to choose the price level for entering a trade. Watch now as Gabriel talks us through a practical example: YM (Dow Jones) Futures opportunity Long on the 240min chart.

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Market Mania: Sorting the Historical From the Hysterical (Again) By, D. R. Barton, Jr.

\ Almost exactly 12 years ago to the day, I wrote in this same space that the market was dropping precipitously due to a downgrade. Except that time, in early August of 2011, it was the Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings that downgraded U.S. credit. Interestingly, the context for the two downgrades was both very much the same and very different. The ”same” parts come from the rating agencies themselves and their reasons for the downgrades. I won’t get into the “insider” politics, but both the 2011 and 2023 downgrades

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It’s Only Five (or Seven or Eight) Stocks… By, D.R. Barton, Jr.

There have always been certain times when a group of stocks were pulling the rest of the market along. A quick search shows that the term FANG was first used by none other than Mad Money host Jim Cramer in 2013 as an acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. Two of them have changed names since then and Apple stock was added soon thereafter to make them the FAANG stocks. After a re-ascent to the top echelon, Microsoft was rightfully added in to give us the FANGMA group. To

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Two Charts for Today’s Market Plus the Passing of a Legend By, D. R. Barton, Jr.

Almost exactly 15 years ago to the day, I wrote my worst article for the Van Tharp Institute. In an attempt to minimize any additional stressors to my writing psyche, I’ll not go into the details of why the article was (ahem) less than my best. Or about the emails I received that called into question my worth as a human being with quotes such as, “…Or perhaps you could leave Van to cover position sizing and you can target what really seems to be bothering you…”. To make a

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Video: Monthly Futures Trend Scan June 2023 By, Gabriel Grammatidis

The Markets are moving! Is this phase 2 of the Commodity Super Cycle? Our Monthly Futures Trend Scan nicely shows how markets are lining up for another explosive leg higher within this early stage Commodity Super Cycle. US Equities have shown good follow-through coming out of several higher timeframe Gecko S1 patterns. There are actually three S1 patterns – one embedded within the other – which adds triple pressure to the upside. Metals and Energies are bullish, probably waiting for another strong sell-off event before the markets bottom out. Natural

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